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I'm curious if we see other unconformities related to other Ice Ages. If receding glaciers scraped away the earth and led to this big of a gap, shouldn't this have happened again w…

Not a professional anthropologist or historian, but I do enjoy reading about it. You should be skeptical when authors/books make general claims about a large group of people. There…

With FileVault, the disk won't decrypt until the user enters their login password. Here's Yubico's documentation on Filevault integration: https://www.yubico.com/support/knowledge-…

Hmm, it's unfortunate that this is being shut down. If you're looking for alternatives, I've been using the New York Times app, CNN, and Buzzfeed News. You need to deal with some a…

I think funding mass media is less interesting than finding a way to have sustainable investigative journalism, both at the local and national levels. Investigative journalism, esp…

At the big tech firm I work at, there's a best practice where any database (whether that's a traditional RDBMS or a NoSQL client) is abstracted away by a microservice with a define…

Sounds a bit like a web version of this: http://junecloud.com/software/iphone/deliveries.html

All this has happened before, and all this will happen again. - Six, Battlestar Galactica

What fascinates me is how close this synthetic filesystem is to making REST calls with a small client library. All your application needs to know is the path to call and what HTTP …

In order not to get into trouble with the SEC, wouldn't Icahn have had to issued this press release alerting investors to look at his Twitter account before he tweeted? Seems like …

Github seems to have done this: https://github.com/blog/1530-choosing-an-open-source-license Their new repo page points to choosealicense.com and lets you choose any of the major O…

You might want to be careful: in OS X Mavericks, the default version of Ruby is 2.0.0p195. If you decide to upgrade, you'll have to go through this pain all over again. If you're u…

You can get a list of the available cipher commands with openssl list-cipher-commands A description is available if you do man enc Doesn't seem to be any reason you couldn't use AE…

Youtube on the selection of a winner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H542nLTTbu0

It only seems to work on Chrome right now. Safari doesn't support the FileSystem API, so it doesn't seem like even Webkit's enough.

At the same point as you are. I have 8 GB of RAM in my mid-2009 MacBook Pro and usually have one browser running with a number of tabs. I quickly run out of RAM and go to swap, and…

I disagree. I think it's prudent for hackers to think of the social and environmental costs associated with making great products. Hackers don't live in a vacuum, and even the best…

This happened to me recently. I had nearly 2 TB of movies and TV shows on an external hard drive that decided to die on me when I moved it. After some messing around, I was able to…